I have a 2D barcode generator that creates some barcodes on a backend (Java). It gives me the URLs of the data, and I set them on the client side using Javascript. Everything works fine in Chrome, Firefox. But not in IE8 (of course!), Although half of the images work, and half do not work.
My images are a couple of hundred bytes (much less than 32kb)
Here is an example not working in IE8:
data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAABgAAAAYCAAAAADFHGIkAAAACXBIWXMAAAsTAAALEwEAmpwYAAAAEnRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBCYXJjb2RlNEryjnYuAAAAgklEQVR42nVRixKAMAjy/3+a2hBwdVtdD1RELFxOXS6+9v1+F/+ICFs5jpGqsQWSosy3MQbVGSEDC7q4FaQrRiJDepJ1iG2sATggaqkeCc3VqicDDu6omgk1VdmS4W3Uq4sr4hE8llSYKe7GXsTxTPdZTdlyLQA4xrKQOit+Ryv7nwfFATbY5mERHQAAAABJRU5ErkJg
Here is a working example in IE8:
data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAFMAAABTCAAAAADG2WTcAAAACXBIWXMAACZzAAAmcwHzbHUKAAAAEnRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBCYXJjb2RlNEryjnYuAAABAklEQVR42u2ZwQ7AIAhD+f+f3nbwMGwBl3hYg1xM5ngmUBE3u/abCTHtMTZcS4N3O0z3dNiYg+eeickZ02LMVzRcPJ0DD77zPsw5CQv6BGaYIwkmxo6+/V7S2CKHGShvYaNDmngN+T0TfGk9Y/E0DL4YkxVsWCQsSGGOOjPhHaNVfM5W2YMpMCFu2A3QQyHb722ZkQAT+dLzVJEJvqz4hYqc1H2Y4XHgU0WPCmzFxJhMjrTO00K3uDd7MXm8SSdKc1fej/7LLGTK+8yvPW0jZrGZ15sQXWbUGCTXOXIoiDGLLx3RUN1lOjOzCp5MkzZUmlkIM9JnGs9ezF2mxuz8r2e33b2PHKlEJ4PKAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC
Here is the fiddle . JS script does not work so well in IE8, so use this link to directly view the result.
If you have an idea about the cause of this problem, share it :)